Asian tiered tower with multiple eaves to keep inclement weather from coming inside the structure. Used in Buddhist and Taoist religious structures in Japan, China, Korea, Vietnam, Myanmar, Nepal, and India often near a monastery, they are also sometimes used as an ornamental motif atop ceramic vessels. In Burma, variants of a pagoda but looking more like the top of a Buddhist stupa is used atop a hsun ok, a lacquer vessel used by Buddhists wishing to earn merit by filling the vessel with foods and other items and donating its contenst to the monks at Buddhist monasteries.
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A stupa is a memorial shrine and a sacred burial mound to house sacred relics associated with the Buddha or other Buddhist saintly persons, a symbol of the Buddha’s enlightenment and a model of the Buddhist cosmos (McArthur, p. 179). Initially they were hemispherical mound-like shapes and were transformed in East Asia into a pagoda…
Finely carved figures were attached to ox cart yokes to protect farmers from malevolent spirits who inhabited all seen/unseen sectors of their world. . This beautifully carved ox cart yolk image is a chinthe, a mythical Burmese lion/dragon creature commonly decorating many everyday items. A propitious spiritual and protective guardian, the animalsymbolizes power, courage, and strength. This carving displays the common traits of a lions with a long face, large eyes, a long sharp nose, a lion-like beard, and a flame-like shape on the top of his head. Masterfully carved with careful attention to details, see the deeply incised hairs that cover his body. The 2-part piece is held together with a wooden plug. Though for daily use, Burmese craftsmen created beautiful objects and finished them with the best materials they could afford.
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